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A judge will allow theft charges to stand against Wilkes-Barre Township Fire Chief John Yuknavich after prosecutors complied with a Friday deadline to provide his attorney with a detailed accounting of the allegations.

Yuknavich will stand trial Feb. 11 on charges he illegally wrote himself $11,865 in fire department checks and spent $3,706 on a Sam's Club credit card, Luzerne County Judge Joe Sklarosky Jr. said.

Prosecutors had put the case in jeopardy after failing to comply with a Dec. 11, 2012 order mandating they provide attorney Barry Dyller with the date, time, location and amount of each allegedly unlawful transaction and cash withdrawal.

Sklarosky extended the deadline at a hearing last month, allowing prosecutors time to provide Dyller with seven pages of spreadsheets detailing Sam's Club purchases from June 2009 to May 2011 for items including spicy smoked sausage, rib-eye steaks and Coke Zero.

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